You forgot to set the text height based on your annotation scale. If plotting at 1:100 and you want 3mm tall text on paper, set text height to 300 .

These AutoCAD alternatives often include ZBBZ as a native drafting tool due to their heavy focus on the Chinese surveying market.

With the rise of BIM (Revit, Archicad) and AutoCAD Civil 3D, the manual ZBBZ approach is evolving.